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Program/Project Manager

Program/Project Manager

Work Experience

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT (experienced manager)
February 1998 until present: Being with a top consulting firm brings a tremendously rich experience by working in challenging roles with high profile clients across different industries in a very international environment. I've gained experience in management, product marketing, business development and technical roles. The ever changing business circumstances require me to be proactive, a good listener to my clients, flexible, fast learning and capable to provide creative solutions that meet all stakeholders' requirements.

Projects:
- UPC Broadband SUPPORT THE CTO PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE (Sept 2007 ¡V Nov 2007)
* Defined 2008 roadmap for UPC¡¦s CTO department (input gathering, alignment with Marketing roadmap/strategy, process definition)
* Supported the roll-out of the Digital TV platform to Austria

- Philips Lighting - SET-UP OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE (Feb 2007 ¡V Aug 2007)
Lead the set-up of a program management office for a 3-year program that oversees >100 projects worth EUR 70M of investment with the objective to consolidate the current 13 systems across 6 business units into one system, to harmonize the business processes and to roll-out this new system to Europe, North-America, the Asia Pacific region and Latin America. The scope included:
* Support the Global Program Manager
* Program Planning, Organization (Structure, Governance, Roles & Responsibilities, Meeting Structure) and Processes

- UPC Broadband - INTERIM PROJECT MANAGER FOR WEB DELIVERY DEPARTMENT (Oct 2006 ¡V Feb 2007)
Day-to-day management, requirements gathering/prioritization and liaising with Corporate Marketing, country representatives, architecture and operations for two projects:
* Pan-European Data Mining solution (implemented)
* RFP preparation for Campaign Management

- Vodafone NL END-TO-END RESPONSIBLE FOR CMMI ASSESSMENT (Sept ¡V Oct 2006)

- KPN - PROJECT MANAGER FOR IT GOVERNANCE PROJECT (Mar 2006 ¡V Aug 2006)
Implemented an IT Governance tool within the IT department to industrialize the key processes in scope: Innovation Management, Enhancement Management, Portfolio Management, Resource Management and Project/ Program Management.

- Vodafone NL - DEFINED IT STRATEGY & BUSINESS PLANS (Nov 2005 ¡V Feb 2006)

- Philips Consumer Electronics - DEFINED MARKET-TESTING CAPABILITY PROJECT (Oct 2005 ¡V Nov 2005)
Confirmed and prioritized the business requirements with each of the business groups involved, defined an implementation plan and estimated the related costs.

- KPN - PROCESS SUPPORT TOOL ASSESSMENT (Jul 2005 ¡V Oct 2005)
Lead assessment of the current process support tools landscape and gather requirements with all stakeholders for integrated IT governance tooling.

- T-Mobile NL - SHOP PRODUCTIVITY ASSESSMENT (Jul 2005 ¡V Aug 2005)
Identified opportunities for improvement of the productivity of the T-Mobile shops in Austria, Czech Republic and The Netherlands by conducting local and central workshops, visiting shops and interviewing employees. The result has been a handbook of measures to improve the shop productivity in the various countries that has been approved for implementation by the steering committee.

- Philips Consumer Electronics - PROJECT MANAGER FOR CLUB PHILIPS (April 2004 ¡V Jul 2005)
Implemented the Club Philips portal in 16 different countries. The portal offered Value Added Services (VAS) to enhance the use of Philips Consumer Electronics products. The VAS were provided by external content providers which have been integrated in the Club Philips portal. Activities included:
* Business requirements gathering / scope definition / use case definition / interaction designs / content mapping for 3 releases and the Streamium portal
* Lead the development/application management team
* Coordination of Philips activities
* Roll-out to European countries, Brazil, China and USA
* Integration of VAS: ringtones, photo service, music download service, Brazilian and Chinese VAS
* SLA Management for Application Management

- Buma/Stemra - LEAD ARCHITECT (Feb 2004 ¡V April 2005)
Lead the Architecture and Infrastructure team at Holland¡¦s music rights and royalty¡¦s organization to define the future architecture and select the hardware.

- Vodafone NL - INTERIM PROJECT MANAGER VODAFONE LIVE! INTRODUCTION (Feb 2002 ¡V Jan 2003)
As a project manager within the product marketing department, I was responsible for the requirements analysis, scope definition and realization of the platform for Vodafone live!

- Vizzavi NL - VIZZAVI MARKET LAUNCH (April 2000 ¡V Jan 2002)
Set-up of a multi-access portal (web/sms/wap). Starting as responsible for the realization of the connections with external parties (sms-services, content providers, wap access to the portal, etc.), moving to be the linking pin between the marketing and technical departments, working as a product/project manager on various projects.

- Essent - RESEARCH ON THE OFFERING OF SERVICES VIA THE INTERNET (Sept 1999 ¡V March 2000)

- ABN-AMRO - VARIOUS ROLES IN THE MORTGAGE AND THE INSURANCES DEPARTMENT (Feb 1998 ¡V Feb 2000)


Education

- Philosophy: BA Philosophy, University of London, UK, Started in December 2005
- M.Sc in Management (1997): IDP (Intensive Postgraduate Management Programme), Nyenrode University, NL, Thesis: Wholesalers and eCommerce ¡V The Opportunities and Threats of (Dis)intermediation
- M.Sc in Computer Science (1996), Area of concentration: Information Systems, Leiden University, NL, Thesis: User Requirements and Information Flows in Support of Ecoauditing

Training:
- Carrier Grade IPTV & Digital Video, France, completed in September 2007
- Prince2 Practitioner, NL, completed in January 2007
- Value-driven Program Management, USA, completed in August 2006
- Interview Skills training, NL, completed in June 2006
- Core Manager School, USA, completed in February 2005
- Mansal - Commercial training, NL, completed January 2005



Skills

I'm a management professional with 10 years of industry experience working in Accenture's Communications & High Tech practice based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I've gained broad experience in Program and Project Management in engagements with various clients, either as a manager of an Accenture project or as an interim manager. I am particularly interested in managing projects that, through the innovation, implementation and launch of products, services or organizations, use today's technology bringing previously unthought-of opportunities to improve the world we are living in.

Specialties: Program/Project Management, Establishment of Project/Program Office, New Service Development, Product Innovation, Innovation Management Process, Product Management.


Languages

- Dutch: native tongue
- English: fluent
- French: basic skills
- German: basic skills


Other

Hobbies: Study philosophy, cooking, nature, travelling, playing the piano, squash, skiing

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